THE STANDARD. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1873.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 98, 22 October 1873, Page 2

THE STANDARD.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1873.

“ We shall sell to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or right : We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

We arc compelled this morning to hold over an extended notice of many subjects demanding attention, in order to make room for much important matter, local and general, recently to hand. Foremost amongst those things that concern ourselves as a community more immediately than anything else just now is that of procuring a member for the coming Session of the Provincial Council. Elsewhere we have noted the fact of a Requisition, — which is being generally signed,—to be presented to Captain Lead on his return from Auckland, asking that gentleman to accede to the wishes of the settlers by being nominated to fill the first representative seat allotted to Poverty Bay since the foundation of the colony. There is something singularly appropriate in this request; and it gives us great pleasure in recording that Captain Read has already signified his willingness to accede to it, if conveyed in such an unmistakable manner as will leave no doubt as to its genuineness. Captain G. E. Read may be looked upon as the father of the Bay. He is the Patriarch, who, after all the buffetings and discomforts of pioneering, and early settlement, can look around now on the happy change of scene which he has been mainly instrumental in effecting. It is his energy, and the leverages of a large capital, that has made Poverty Bay what it is. There are scores of settlers in this district who have grateful recollections of the helping hand he freely extended, to aid them in making this their future home. There are other scores also, who, but for his great desire to see a prosperous and contented population settle on these magnificent Plains, would not have been the happy possessors of the small but valuable estates they now enjoy. These are the people who, we are glad to find, are now returning like for like. Captain Read, say they, has shown himself so far a friend of the settlers, that we spontaneously confide our political necessities to his care. Captain Read, it is true, as others have it, is not an orator, nor a debater; but do we want either ? Or rather cannot we do without both ? We want a man of influence, possessing a sufficiency of time

to attend to our affairs while he does not forsake his own. A man of sound opinion and practical judgment, with a stake in the place whose interest will be that of his constituents. We have these in Captain Read ; and although we shall be happy to discuss the merits of any other candidate, —and shall, as the day of nomination approaches, probably, have further opportunities of referring to Captain Read’s —we think the electors have shown their wisdom in the selection they have made.